Google has announced a new feature to search your Android-powered phones running 2.0 in the US. It’s called Gesture Search and it lets you quickly find anything on your Android device by drawing letters on the screen.

Here’s a description from Google:

Say you want to call your friend Anne. Just open Gesture Search and draw letter “A”, and Gesture Search returns a list of items that have words starting with “A”. If your handwriting isn’t all that neat, that’s okay. If the “A” you draw looks a bit like an “H”, as seen in the bottom left corner of the screenshot, “H” results will be brought up as well.

If needed, you can also erase a query by crossing it horizontally: left to right erases the entire query, and right to left removes the last letter or space in the query. Now you can either scroll down the list to find Anne or write more letters to refine the search.

Additionally, Gesture Search improves search quality by learning from your search history, so Anne’s contact info will jump to the top of the list the next time you write “A”.

Gesture Search is available in Android Market in the US. There is no word as to its availability in Canada yet. Definitely another innovative idea from Google. The sad part is not everybody is on 2.0, so this cannot reach the masses just quite yet.

[Google Mobile Blog]